JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for June 29, 2013

Usually people don’t always read the first chapter in those Books….they just try to skip ahead to the later parts…

Well, if you think about it…. books are all around… the “book” of our chromosomes, the “book” of our family history (not just selected chapters, but the whole book from it’s beginning), there’s the book of just our personal history that has a beginning… same with the “book of creation”, the abundant globe of life that Clarence refers to, including us bickering humans… and though it’s not a science textbook, nor a scholastic book, even the Bible shows that we have a beginning common to all, and with each of these books, people these days tend to forget what these books teach us, and we end up doing what Clarence talks about, and his newborn child asks the question that we do well to ponder, not with a divisive mindset, but one of finding more common ground, which also helps us understand our own selves….

7+ billion and counting.

Let’s see 4 days of sermon on the mound, is he done?

wait a minute,she didnt just arrive, she’s been around for 9 months

I didn’t quite get Olivet’s comment when I read it in the paper paper, but seeing it here, I realized that “Where are you from originally?” is a question that bedevils many people of mixed race.

Gokie5: Then everybody is bedeviled – assuming they don’t have delusions of being in some pure, master race category. I have no idea where I am from, and don’t particularly care. I know most of my gene pool blew over in the 18th century, but most of my American ancestors walked and/or paddled over some 8-10 millennia before.

I wonder where Mr. Armstrong got her name, I’ve never seen it before this comic. I don’t know much about my family history or many members of my family. Sadly, people don’t get together like they used to.

I believe the intent of the comment you refer to is ‘life begins at conception’ Ill look for the verse if you like it is in the book of Psalms

awww…Olivet’s first thought

“13.4 billion years to make something this great. Don’t mess it up.”-OopsMy badand the whole thing collapses-or maybe it’s tougher than we thinkmaybe even WE are tougher than we think.not that we want to tough it out..-just think, there was at least one time in Earth’s history in which it got so cold the ice over the oceans at the Equator was over a mile thick. most life on Earth diedJust a little bit near volcanic areas managed to survive.the carbon dioxide outgassed by the many volcanoes built up in the atmosphere, unable to penetrate the ice and chemically react with the liquid water belowuntil the heat trapping capacity of the atmosphere melted the icethen the carbon dioxide disolved in the water and the Calcium Carbonate precipitated out leaving thick bets all around the worldand the survivors populated the seas and the landuntil the next big freezeor cosmic impactor nuclear waror biological warafter which in all likelihood, whatever survives will start over down some other path.

“The Rift Valley in particular.”-No particular reason to assume the Rift Valley.It was just a good place for preserving fossils.Scientific American had a good article a few months back about how a place in south east Africa had the climate and foods capable of sustaining human life for the several hundred thousand years or longer in which most of Africa was too dry for much life to be sustained.The area in question had many plants like tubers which stored food under ground during dry years, had easy access to shell fish.May or may not have been the cradle of humanity for a while, most of it is under water right now ever since the last ice age ended and dumped all that water back in the oceans.We shall see

“Had a pretty good gig going for a while there, probably in the linen line. Then came the Wars of Religion, upshot of which is we left France for England. Then came the English Civil War, left England for America. Then came the Revolutionary War, wound up in the Atlantic provinces at first, then into Upper Canada, then in the 1870s to Manitoba.”-You had it easy.Some of my ancestors were run out of India by the locals or invaders/ depending on how you consider them.-Then they were driven out of Europe by the locals or invaders, depending on how you consider them.-Then they were driven out of England by the locals or invaders, depending on how you consider them.-Then they were run out of Wales, Scotland, Ireland by the invaders (no question about it this time).-And then somebody invented air conditioning and we are being crowded out of Florida by the invaders from places like Manitoba.-Other ancestors were driven out of the northern regions by changing climate.-Other ancestors were driven out of tribal lands by depletion of local hunting and/or invading tribes. (these tribes were in several different continents depending on which ancestors we are considering.)-Fly me to the moon

ghostkeeper: Is that strain all? Sounds like a lot of incest.

He’s from plant blow hard,